Weight loss the old style way part 3.

HelenYorkshire

Is it too late to join...?

I've about 2st to lose, but I've been podgy since birth so I've no "oh, look when I was thinner" photos for inspiration

Scraping a living so on a tight budget, I do have a gym membership for swimming and classes but its a 2-walks-and-a-bus-trip journey to get there - not good when I've collapsed on the sofa after work!:eek:

I like and am willing to learn home made cooking / baking / stews etc. Prefer to use hob, steamer and slow cooker rather than cruddy oven :mad:

Cooking for one, small freezer, but try to freeze leftovers etc.


Any advice welcome
Well done to everyone so far, hope I can join you in success!! :j

Caterina

Hi all,

Welcome Kunekune!

Boo, I don't rubbish nutritionists' advice, I also went ages ago and in all honesty what she said is what I already knew in my heart, but needed it confirmed, this was: eat breakfast, always have a protein with it (egg, milk etc...), drink more water, eat wholegrains, reduce dairy (difficult if you are vegetarian!). Basically it was a suggestion to cook from scratch, wholesome and wholemeal, a bit like I do now!

Rockie thank you for the felafel recipe, will have a go, I have some chick peas soaking at the moment!

Sunnyday, I hope that the article is useful for your dad. Splenda is also called Sucralose, today I went to M&S hoping to find low fat yogurt that don't cost the earth *in SW syns I mean* and the Count on Us contain sucralose, DRAT! So I am back eating the synful ones heeheh but rather that than artificial sweeteners!

My day so far (pigging out on FREE FOODS but still pigging out, there is no way out of it!):

Breakfast: toasted oats and nuts, chopped banana, soya milk

Lunch: large mixed salad with everything possible in it, dressed with 1 tbsp olive oil and balsamic vinegar. 1 huge pan of pasta with peas, sprinkling of parmesan.

Snack: huge amount of grapes mixed with cottage cheese.

Planned dinner: Wagamama noodles (so not too much Syn damage I hope!) using 2 for 1 voucher.

Before dinner DH and I are going to the cinema, free of course, to see Persepolis. Love this forum!

Catch up tomorrow,

Ciao all

Caterina

DonnaP

Hi

With all the talk previously about sweetners, I have tried to find some low fat yogurts sweetened with sugar rather then sweetners. Am I looking for the impossible?

I would rather have yogurt made with lower fat milk, but why do manufacturers pressume we would prefer sweetners. Or am I missing them?

Can anyone help?

BTW I think I am going to go back to full fat mayo, salad cream, butter and full sugar squash etc. I am a bit scared really (how sad is that!!!) as I have been brainwashed all these years into thinking that low fat is the way to go. It feels liberating but a bit scary too.

Donna

MRSMCAWBER

Hello and welcome on board HelenYorkshire
Its never to late to join us .... You will soon be losing im sure :T

Cheerfulness....glad you like em....we are addicted to em im sneaky... if you freeze the dough in balls..when you take them out and they have defrosted they are a little stickier so need a bit mor flour to roll out -but the plus point is that they seem to roll out bigger and thinner ..so 1 with just a little more filling cuts in 2 and in my mind i see 2 and don't register that its still the same amount of dough as before i froze it :rotfl:
They are sooooo cheap to make too aren't they :j hubby would live on them if i left him to it... he is just about to cut down on having soups for lunch at work (now the warm weather is supposed to be coming :rotfl: ) and has requested plenty of tortillas :T ...they yummy with hm coleslaw and a bit of strong cheddar grated and mixed in .. meatballs, southern coated chicken nomnomnom :rotfl:

newlywed

DonnaP wrote: »

Hi

With all the talk previously about sweetners, I have tried to find some low fat yogurts sweetened with sugar rather then sweetners. Am I looking for the impossible?

Aldi do belight yoghurts in muller light style tubs.

They are low fat, no sweetners and have sugar added. They do them in cherry (the best), strawberry, pineapple or apricot-something.

MRSMCAWBER

DonnaP

If it makes you feel a bit better... I use butter, full fat mayo, milk, salad cream, greek yogurt etc and i find that i don't crave anything..yet when i ate low fat/diet everything i was like a pac man :rotfl: .
But i know what you mean about that panic of trying to lose weight whilst buying higher calorie stuff -but its so liberating once you start :T not to mention cheaper lol

pigpen

breakfast.. rice krispies..
lunch.. half a pack of pasta'n'sauce
dinner sausages and tesco crispy potatoes.. and peas.. I am out collecting at 5:30 so need to eat NOW!!

Snacked on a pack of hula-hula-hula-hoops!!.. yum.. I didn't eat the 2 cheese straws or the chocoalte hobnobs flapjack! I fed those to Tiddles

Rose_Wood

HI All,

I had an impromptu weigh in this morning rather than tomorrow and am now fed up because I've put on the couple of pounds I'd lost to bring me below 11 stone. It is so annoying because I've relaxed slightly this week, I've still not eaten more than 1,900 calories per day - which is less than I am supposed to be able to eat to maintain weight. It is so disheartening.

I don't binge, eat at least 5 fruit and veg a day, drink skimmed milk, hardly ever eat butter etc, don't add sugar to food and don't do diet drinks or use diet foods. I've always cooked from scratch and yet now weigh more than a stone more than I did when I was 9 months pregnant.

I know I'll get over it but it just makes me so cross!!

Food today.
B: Muesli mixed with fruit and fibre, raisins, skimmed milk. Pineapple juice.
L: Treated myself to a chicken leg and a Coke.
I'm not hungry now so will probably just have a couple of pieces of fruit and a yoghurt.

On the good side I didn't succumb to chocolate and I've got a pan of HM carrot soup on the go for lunches tomorrow and over the week.

Rose

toniwoty2009

donnap just a quick one to say, i really like the new Ski activ8 smoothie yogs (not a fan of ones with bits in) which have no artificial sweetners. they're 2 WW points each, and yummy! oh they're half price in Mr Ts at the mo

taplady

DonnaP wrote: »

Hi


BTW I think I am going to go back to full fat mayo, salad cream, butter and full sugar squash etc. I am a bit scared really (how sad is that!!!) as I have been brainwashed all these years into thinking that low fat is the way to go. It feels liberating but a bit scary too.

Donna

we are doing the same too! have bought real butter today instead of low fat spread! and big tubs of proper organic yoghurt with sugar in!:drool: